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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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timeshift with btrfs: am I doing it right? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I just set up timeshift on my EndeavourOS pc, but this time I chose BTRFS instead of rsync. I currently decided to store the snapshot on the same hard drive of my installation because, well, it's my only one. during the setup, it only asked me if I wanted to include the @home or not. using rsync, instead, it asked for a bunch of locations, and I could choose to include only dotfile, everything, nothing,... is this normal?
also, the snapshot took like... 1 second? with rsync it may take up to 5 minutes... is this normal? or am I backupping fried air?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on your needs and if you want to include changes made to documents in home for example while you work during the day. For me the OS just does snapshotting when packages are updated so I can rollback if something breaks. The rest I do normal backups. because snapshotting is not backup if its on the same machine. Btrfs Send will let you push a snapshot elsrwhere though.